The picture celebrates male strength, a
nd his power over women by omitting the
female totally. Ingres surely did not create
men in a vacuum. Why
were artists inspired in the first place to cel
ebrate the idealized guy in favor of girls?
The Romanticized Man
During the eighteenth century, the German art
historian and archaeologist Johann Joachim
Winckelmann (1717-1768) published
a novel that motivated contempor
work on the sculptures of Ancient Greece. Classical
Greek sculptures repr
esent an idealized guy,
Neoclassicism was popularized.
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Neoclassical paintings, such
as the aforementioned
Achilles Receiving the Ambassadors of Agamemnon
, accentuate the
heroic, balanced, logical, and idealized
man by emulating Ancient Greek figures.
During the first half of the nineteenth centur
y, as a drive against Neoclassicism, the artwork and
literary movement called Romanticism came about
. Romanticism rejected the idea of harmony
d on nature, emotion, passion, and
the internal self. Artists were
able to express their most profound se
their relationship to
before. Naturally, this movement affected
artists' relationship with the male nude. Now,
represent balance, inte
The French sculptor Auguste R
odin (1840-1917) created male nude
sculptures, which mark the shift away from Neoclassicism. Rodin's
Strong evocations of human
desire, despair, and fire."
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His sculpture
Adam: The Creation of
Man
, from 1880 represents a awesome un
and torment, absent from Neocla
ssical art. Adam points to the
ground, with a look of sorrow, as if
Loaded by his ties to Earth. His
sinuous musculature reminds us of
Deathrate. Instead of the classi
cal contrapposto pose, common in
ouches, and recoils at the weight
of the world. Rodin does not attempt
to disguise the battle of man,
and instead highlights life's inevit
Capable torment. The approval of
feeling and unrest probably goes hand
female naked, and the fall of the Academic male naked, since
Girls are correlated with irra
tionality, emotion, and mystery.
free nudist families is no
doubt an exaggerated version the
human condition, but is arguably more
Auguste Rodin,
Adam: The
Creation of Man,
1880.
Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Neoclassical male naked. Because wh
ile the intellectual and beautif
ul Neoclassical man fools us
into thinking that we can exist without emoti
on, the twined and expressive Romanticized man
reminds us of the reality of bei
ng alive. Rodin's sculptures must
relationship with the world but the
fact that his sculptur
es are not self-portrai
ts shows a space
between Rodin and his subjects. The selfportrait,
self-portrait can supply
Outstanding insight into an
artist's inner world.
A Different Sort of Guy
While Solomon Godeau claims th
at the crisis in masculinity began during the eighteenth
century, Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat writes that this
Catastrophe started in the la
te nineteenth century,
when "we see the conventional c
oncept of the logical, autonom
ous man slowly but surely
fragmenting."
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Thus, the notion of the independent, bala
nced, perfect male was an acceptable
Theory until the nineteenth century, until cha
nges started to happen. http://www.topostop.fi/verkkokauppa/redirect.php?action=url&goto=shynudists.com -Tugendhat believes
that the crisis in masculinity has origins in
industrialization,
the call for women's rights, the
Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and awesome bran
ches of science, like the study of sex.
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The writer goes on to write:
Marx, Darwin, Nietzsche, and Freud all showed,
each otherwise, that guy isn't
a rational, autonomous being, but is fairly
sexually and socially
conditioned, and that
since he is driven by his subconscious and by
his desires, he cannot even be described as
master of his own house. The "denaturing of
man, meaning the removal of the causality
ng of the dividing line between regular and the
sick, shattered the hegemonic comprehension of the guy's role.
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Thus, during the nineteenth century the role of
the guy was no longer comprehended due to further
Ethnic and social shifts. Artists supplied imag
ery that provided visual investigation of this
Theory.
The Austrian artist Egon Schi
ele (1890-1918) was determined by
Gustave Klimt but developed a
Exceptional, wild, expressionistic style. Schiele was
Decided to create fresh and provocative work,
and often painted nude portr